Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan hit out “pop porn” today as he revealed how he recruited members of The Killers and Rage Against The Machine for a one-off show in London next month.

The Killers bassist Mark Stoermer and RATM drummer Brad Wilk will join Pumpkins Corgan and Jeff Schroeder for the December 5 gig at Koko in Camden. The pair are old friends of Corgan’s and were drafted in after Nicole Fiorentino and Mike Byrne left the seminal rock band earlier this year.

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Corgan, pictured, said: “The line-up is ridiculous. The first time we got together for rehearsals, we played our first song and it was like, ‘Wow!’ Like, ‘Wow, wow!’” The band are enjoying something of a renaissance after receiving acclaim for their album Monuments To Elegy, something which Corgan feels is due to fans getting sick of pop stars such as Miley Cyrus.

He said: “I have a strange sense that people have had it with pop. I can’t compete with somebody who’s doing porn. The person who does porn for their video is going to sell more records than me.

"So how did we compete back in the day and how do we compete now? It’s the same. You have to be truer than false, realler than fake, and you have to bring something that only you can bring.”